The psychiatric state of Kevin B. casts doubt on the legal outcome that will be given to the proceedings against him, after a series of break-ins committed at the end of September 2024 in Tours.
Presented for the second time in two months before the criminal court, Wednesday December 11, 2024, the young man aged 22 saw his judgment postponed until January 8, 2025, time to make possible a psychiatric expertise, obligatory in view of his status of a protected adult.
A family awakened from its sleep
Without a job, without accommodation or resources, placed under reinforced guardianship, Kevin B. is notably suspected of a violent burglary attempt, in the Febvotte district.
On September 27, a father, whom he found himself facing in the middle of the night after breaking into his house, was injured in the arm and head with a hammer. “The thief was looking for gold, which he said he planned to then resell in Belgium”whispered a police source at the time of the events.
Thirty pieces of jewelry
Confused by the DNA found on the weapon left behind when he fled, Kevin B. was arrested on October 7 in a van he shared with his parents, parked on a plot in the Sanitas district.
Inside the vehicle, the police had discovered around thirty pieces of jewelry, loot from a series of burglaries that the defendant denies.
Already convicted seven times, mainly for theft or violence, Kevin B. could escape a new trial. On Wednesday, again, the young man seemed overwhelmed by the content of the debates and the issues of his appearance.
The expertise, entrusted to a psychiatrist, will have to establish whether, at the time of the events, his discernment was impaired or abolished by a psychological disorder. In the second case, his criminal liability could not be engaged, which would close the case.
